Re: Possible base-20 numeric system
From: | Rene Uittenbogaard <ruittenb@...> |
Date: | Sunday, October 24, 2004, 15:07 |
Trebor Jung wrote:
> üstistïs: one hundred and one
1+10*10, right?
> üsrastïs: one hundred and eleven
1+11*10
Nice :) I like languages with numbers in "little-endian" notation (least
significant part first). "Five and forty".
Simon Richard Clarkstone wrote:
> for complicated numbers:
> köttïstïstïs-naetïstïs-ðahtïs-nel
> = _19_9_16_4 = _19_0_0_0 + _9_0_0 + _16_0 + _4
> = 19*20*20*20
> + 9*20*20
> + 16*20
> + 4
> = 155924
I'd use nel-ðahtïs-naetïstïs-köttïstïstïs. As a matter of fact, I think
that'll be the way Eyahwánsi will handle numbers.
René